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Anxiety Disorders
Anxiety disorder is a blanket term covering a variety of mental abnormalities in which severe anxiety or fear is a prominent symptom. Anxiety disorder is separated into general anxiety, panic, and phobic disorder.
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What is the medical definition of anxiety?
In psychiatry anxiety is a relatively permanent state of worry and nervousness occurring in a variety of mental disorders, usually accompanied by compulsive behavior or attacks of panic.
It is also a vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune.
Who do you see for anxiety treatment?
This site will explain to you on how to help get rid of anxiety disorder and who to see. http://www.morningsiderecovery.com/mental-illness/anxiety/?cpao=111&cpca=WP+Mental+Illness+Treatment&cpag=C_Anxiety+Treatment+HS&kw=%2Btreating%20%2Banxiety%20%2Bdisorder&gclid=CInAi9Om6LECFck7MgodhiIA8w
Can sugar be linked to anxiety?
yes to much sugar can cause an anxiety attack because sugar can make your heart beat faster and sometime you will panic and it will spring up and anxiety attack you are best to know have to much sugar or caffeine these are things that can lead to a anxiety attack
How do you go about getting conservatorship for my mentally ill sister?
That is going to be a complicated issue. You will need the help of an attorney in your state or other jurisdiction who understands the family law in your area.
Is anxiety a psychotic illness?
yes, at the core all types of anxiety have an autonomic arousal component of the nervous system. There are overt physiologically-driven types that cause sweating, racing heartbeats, tingling at times in extremities, etc, but then there are more existential types of anxities, ruminations, and worries that also have a neurophysiological component but seem less overt in the 'showing" of somatic symptoms. Both types of anxities have a mental health center to them for they cause what we call a 'secondary anxiety response" that is more psychological yet powerful on the mind/brain----that is, causing worrying about the worry/anxiety. This is really the hardest part of management and linked ultimately to one's sense of success in treating it.
What phobia is fear of police?
Astynomiaphobia is the correct psychological term with astynomia meaning police in Greek and phobiais fear in Greek.
Policophobia is more commonly used as slang which means a fear of police encounters that appears to be more associated with a class of residents such as renters, low income households, young, non-white, and those with a sense of disenfranchisement from government, society and neighbor.
Klonopin:
- confusion, hallucinations, unusual thoughts or behavior;
- hyperactivity, agitation, hostility;
- unusual or involuntary eye movements;
- weak or shallow breathing;
- depressed mood, thoughts of suicide or hurting yourself;
- chest tightness, fast or pounding heartbeats;
- painful or difficult urination, urinating more or less than usual;
- pale skin, easy bruising or bleeding; or
- new or worsening seizures.
Less serious side effects may include:
- drowsiness, dizziness, spinning sensation;
- memory problems;
- tired feeling, muscle weakness, lack of balance or coordination;
- slurred speech;
- drooling or dry mouth, sore gums;
- runny or stuffy nose;
- loss of appetite, nausea, diarrhea, constipation;
- blurred vision;
- headache;
- nervousness, sleep problems (insomnia);
- skin rash; or
- weight changes.
What phobia is the fear of whirlpools or dizziness?
Aquaphobia i think
Other Person: I have this phobia and Aquaphobia can also be called Hydrophobia which is also known as the fear of being in large bodies of water. Although some people (like me) can still drink and take regular showers in water.
It depends on how often and severe your nervousness is. If its constant or most of the time, then yes it very well could be, I have G.A.D.(Generlized Anxiety Disorder) and I used to be nervous over everything.
If you nervous just around one type of situation(Such as social events/gatherings) you could have a certain anxiety disorder.
Can you have more than one panic attack daily?
Yes, some people experience panic attacks several times a day. In extreme cases a person can have multiple back to back panic attacks
Is there a cure for social anxiety?
There isn't really a cure, as it is a mental disorder, but you can overcome it and get used to living with it.
Can you be born with a phobia?
Yes you can. There are only TWO types that people can be born with.
A fear of loud noises
A fear of falling
How long do anxiety disorders last?
This varies depedning on the dosage. But a full 2mg "bar" can last more than 24 hours. This also depends on how used to the drug your body is. Also if you smoke marijuana the day after taking xanax the side effects become much more pronounced. But usually with no memory loss which normally only occurs when xanax is used in conjuction with alcohol, or when the drug is overdose.
phobias are named accordingly to an object, place, animal, emotion,etc. causing fear response in an individual; latin words are used before the word phobia labeling each fear appropiately. Phobo, a latin root, means fear. another latin root is added on to make the word complete. for example, arachnophobiameans a fear of spiders, because arachna means spider, and phobia means fear.
What disorders are similar to or associated with OCD?
Sometimes depression can be a part of it, I have borderline OCD. Usually axiety is the number one cause of OCD.
Neurosis consists of irrational thoughts and acts that cause significant harm to one's self or others. But what causes neurosis?
The humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow gave a great answer. He argued that the standard for proper human behavior should not be some statistical average of how people actually behave, but rather how the best, happiest, most productive, most creative, and most fulfilled human beings act - people such as Thomas Jefferson and Albert Einstein. In other words, Maslow argues that the standard for mental health should be human beings at their best. Maslow called these exemplary people "self-actualizers" or "the growing tip" of the human race.
Comparing self-actualizers to less-fulfilled, less-creative, and less-happy people, Maslow found that most neurosis is caused by the frustration of basic human needs.
A basic, as opposed to a derived need, is an innate and fundamental biological or psychological requirement for human well-being. In "Toward a Psychology of Being" (1962), Maslow listed five basic criteria which established a hierarchy of needs:
Its absence breeds illness.
Its presence prevents illness.
Its restoration cures illness.
Under certain, free-choice situations, it is preferred by the deprived person over other satisfactions.
It is found to be inactive, at a low ebb, or functionally absent in the "healthy person" because it is a fulfilled need and thus no longer a strong motivating force.
Maslow held there were seven basic levels of human needs:
Physiological needs such as air, food, sleep, shelter, and sex;
Safety needs, including security, order and stability;
Belongingness and love;
Esteem needs, the need for a stable, firmly-based, high level of self-respect;
Self-actualization, the desire to become everything that one is capable of becoming;
The desire to know and understand;
Aesthetic needs, the need for beauty in one's life.
Aggression, Maslow maintained, is principally a result of the frustration of basic needs. In other words, aggression is not an essential part of human nature, but rather a reaction to circumstances in which essential requirements of our nature are unfulfilled.
Examples are legion. In Communist China - one of the most sexually-repressed and controlling societies on earth - depression and suicide are commonplace. In the Middle East, which has been at war for 5,000 years - there is little safety, and massive anger, fear, distrust and hostility. In countries like North Korea, where there is massive starvation and even the most basic physiological needs are not met for millions of people, depression and suicide are rampant.
What is the solution?
To create societies in which basic human needs are easily fulfilled. That means removing institutional barriers to productivity and wealth, so the necessities of life will be inexpensive and easily acquired. That means getting rid of taxes and regulations and letting a free market flourish.
It also means eliminating class systems which destroy opportunity and self-esteem by branding certain people "untouchables" (India); peasants (China and South America); or vermin (Nazi Germany). It means teaching that sex is natural and healthy, rather than sinful and evil.
What is another term for battle fatigue?
a term used to denote psychiatric illness consequent to the stresses of battle. Syn: shell shock, postraumatic stress, combat neurosis.
What is the cure for midlife crisis?
Marriage There is no cure for midlife crisis, but it goes a long way if you can recognize its symptoms and understand that it happens to men as well as women. I was terrified of being forty, not because it meant I was forty but it meant that for a few years I was going to be vulnerable at my weakest point (which just happens to be slightly overweight women) and all I could do was grit my teeth and pray it wouldn't hit too hard.
It hit once, after some persuasion my wife came to terms with it and, like the sound barrier, I was through and relatively unscathed. I can easily imagine some people are totally destroyed by it.
It's a very real phenomenon, and I suppose different people react differenly to it; getting red highlights, becoming a lesbian, spending four hours a day in tears, working as a teacher's aide in Thailand; it hits everyone differently.
What phobia is the fear of travel or road travel?
The phobia related to the extreme fear of trains, railroads and travel by rail is Siderodromophobia. See Web Links for a complete list of phobias and their meanings
There is nothing to fear but fear its self?
This famous quote from Franklin Delano Roosevelt referred to the fact that uninformed fears and irrational panic can turn a manageable situation into a dangerous crisis.
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Are phobias in anxiety disorders?
Simple phobia/specific phobia, social phobia and agoraphobia are indeed all anxiety disorders.
